2 Kings
Introduction

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Cruelty and Violence
Contradictions
Absurdities
Injustice
Intolerance
Family Values
Science and History
Language
Interpretation
Prophecy
Women
Homosexuality
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Second Kings for Skeptics

If you read nothing else in 2 Kings, be sure to read 2:23-24, where God sends two bears to rip up 42 little children for making fun of Elisha's bald head. It's one of the many Bible stories that you never heard in Church or Sunday School.

Other highlights:

• Elijah proves that he is a man of God by burning to death 102 men. 1:10, 12

• Elisha makes his servant (Gehazi) and all of his descendants lepers forever. 5:27

• Elisha makes an iron axe head swim. 5:27

• God answers Elisha's prayer by smiting his adversaries with blindness. 6:18

• Mothers boiling and eating their own children. 6:28-29

• God sends a famine on the people that lasts for seven years. 8:1

• God vows to "cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall." 9:8

• God has Jezebel thrown off a wall and feeds her body to the dogs. 9:33-37

• The 70 sons of Ahab are killed and their heads are put in baskets. 10:7-8

• Jehu shows off his "zeal for the Lord" by murdering everyone in Samaria. 10:16-17

• God rewards Jehu for murdering Ahab and his family. 10:30

• God, the divine physician, strikes king Azariah with leprosy. 15:5

• Ahaz fathered Hezakiah when he was only eleven years old. 16:2, 18:1-2

• God sends lions to devour the Samaritans because "they knew not the manner of the God of the land." 17:25-26

• Eating dung and drinking piss. 18:27

• An angel of the Lord kills 185,000 men while they sleep. "And when they arose, behold, they were all dead corpses." 19:35

• Isaiah makes the sun move ten degrees backwards.20:11

• God will "bring such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle." 21:12